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English
Etymology
From entero- + -rrhexis.
Noun
enterorrhexis (uncountable)
- (medicine, rare) Rupture of the intestine.
1997 February, Li Li, Chen Shaoli, “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Enterorrhexis Caused by Closed Abdominal Injury”, in Clinical Medicine of China:This paper reports 67 cases of enterorrhexis caused by closed abdominal injury, in which 11 cases are of duodenal rupture (16.42%), 48 of jejuno-ileuc rupture (71. 64%) and 8 of colonic rupture (11.94%).
2001 October 5, Anna Deltsidou, “Cocaine abuse in pregnancy”, in Epitheorese Klinikes Farmakologias Kai Farmakokinetikes, International Edition, volume 16:Prenatal exposure of the neonate to cocaine can be associated with severe defects of gastro-intestinal tract, such as necrotizing enterocolitis (43-45) and enterorrhexis (46), which are due to vasoconstriction, because of the general hypoxia and ischaemia of the fetus.
2008 May, Shigeru Nakakimura, Fumiaki Sasaki, Tadao Okada, Atsushiro Arisue, Kazutoshi Cho, Masami Yoshino, Yonehiro Kanemura, Mami Yamaski, Satoru Todo, “Hirschsprung's disease, acrocallosal syndrome, and congenital hydrocephalus: report of 2 patients and literature review”, in Journal of pediatric surgery, volume 43, number 5:To prevent colitis and enterorrhexis, it is important that we consider HSCR in patients with XLH and ACS for their early treatment such as in our 2 cases.